Chapter 140

“Jason, what’s up with you?” Evadne looked puzzled and surprised.

She always thought highly of Jason, but there he was looking all beat up and lost, eyes bloodshot, lips pale as a sheet, like a puppy left homeless in a downpour.

“Jason, are you here because of Elspeth?”

Ca**ius came up to Evadne, his steps steady, his eyes soft, as he wiped his handsome hands with a pristine white silk cloth.

Evadne glanced at him and saw specks of blood on the cloth.

“I’m sorry. I’m really sorry!” Jason kept apologizing, bowing deeply to them.

Just as Evadne was puzzled, Arnold gave her a buzz.

“Arnold?”

“Sis, Elspeth just left my place.”

Arnold’s voice was heavy with resignation, seemingly self–blaming as he said, “My team and I have been gathering evidence on Elspeth’s abuse of power and bribery, but she’s way ahead of us, shifting all blame to Earl. Frederic got her a really slick lawyer, Cedric Dempsey. That guy is ruthless; he knows exactly how to exploit legal loopholes. My evidence fell short, so I had to let Elspeth go.”

“It’s alright, Arnold, you’ve done your best. And we hit our target, as long as we’ve got the Westguard project under our belt. Everything else, we can take it slow.”

Evadne was calm, but those around her were all fuming as they were itching to give Elspeth a good thrashing.

Elspeth was no saint, but Evadne knew that they could take their time dealing with that woman.

J

At that point, Frederic was still head over heels for Elspeth, he would surely go all out to help her. Escalating the conflict between two big conglomerates for a single project, wasting resources, just wasn’t worth it at that time.

“Uh, Evadne, Jason already rang me up, he seemed quite upset. Comfort him a bit, this has nothing to do with him. He cares too much about your feelings, afraid that you’re upset, so he’s under a lot of stress,” Arnold sighed.

“I got it.”

Evadne got the full picture of what had happened, her gaze

ready to take all the blame,” Jason’s eyes were red as he was ashamed and couldn’t accept that his family

so mad that he stormed into Cedric’s law firm and had a big blowout with him in

Emeric’s help, hiring our dad as a legal advisor for the conglomerate, protecting us, how could our parents have had a peaceful retirement? How could

for over twenty years, but this time, for Evadne, he went

If it’s a case I can handle, and the terms are right, I’ll take it, whether it’s the Abernathy group or the Ashbourne group, it simply doesn’t matter to me! You, on the other hand, our parents worked hard to raise you, provided you with an

words stung

Evadne his whole heart, but his family

really couldn’t face Ms.

are

coaxing a child, her hands on his trembling shoulders, gently shaking him, “Don’t blame yourself, and don’t pick a fight with your family over this. Elspeth is

voice choked, filled

taking on Elspeth’s case, I totally understand this, and I

professional things, a professional lawyer shouldn’t be swayed by social niceties. If the Abernathy group has offered Mr. Cedric a good enough deal, then Mr. Cedric has the right to stick to

lowered his head,

took Evadne’s hand, gently stroking her palm and asking,

Acacia and George’s illegitimate daughter. But first,

knows where the child is, so let’s have Una help us find our way. That way, we won’t have to do the digging

“And what about Acacia? What’s your

mad before I make her

to Thaddeus? How can we make her fall from grace

has lost his marbles,” Ca**ius was deeply

for a while now. No matter, I’ve found myself again, and I want this lousy

of Avery and then she had snapped. “Here, check out this guy, do you recognize him? I

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in surprise. “Really? Then you should thank

a mystery. The kicker is,

curiosity piqued as she recalled the man’s

a man’s desire for control and didn’t like anything

to her,

and he turned to look

really don’t know

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